"I'd say if you can't bother to build it yourself, get potential customers lined up, build revenue on an easier offshoot, or convince someone else to build it in their spare time, then you should reevaluate whether you are an entrepreneur."

"The idea is the easy part. If you are a first-time entrepreneur, try scaling down your concept to something whose value you can prove with friends & family money, then go to professional investors. If your idea does not lend itself to such an approach, try your hand first with something you can bootstrap."

Ben says:

"An idea has a dollar value of $0. If you don't believe in the idea enough to commit your cash/sweat equity to build it or a version of it to show it can work, why should friends, fools and family?"